%T Transforming Hawai‘i: balancing coercion and consent in Eighteenth-Century Kānaka Maoli statecraft %A Paul D'Arcy %I ANU Press %D 2018 %K Political leadership, %K First Peoples, %K Pacific history %R 10.22459/TH.06.2018 %U https://apo.org.au/node/223096 %X This study examines the role of coercion in the unification of the Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha I between 1782 and 1812 at a time of increasing European contact. %9 Book